Thomas S Dye
Biographic Data
| ID | 286170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas S Dye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas S |
| FAMILY NAME | Dye |
| SIGNATURE | DYE T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8116-782X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Scottish Reformers and ʻIli ʻĀina Dissolution in Mid-19th Century Hawaiʻi
ʻIli ʻāina – the institutional and spatial expression of a common Polynesian social organization designed to manage land tenures efficiently – were systematically dissolved in the mid 19th century as the Hawaiian Kingdom struggled to develop revenue during a population decline and to ward off foreign governments that desired fee-simple title to Hawaiian lands. The King and chiefs responded to these challenges by studying the economic logic of Wes…
The patterning of volcanic glass transfer across eastern Oʻahu Island, Hawaiʻi
Bayesian chronology construction and substance time
Ideal distribution models and the tempo of agricultural development in a windward valley of Hawaiʻi
Across the Pacific, agricultural systems have used two main complementary cultivation regimes: irrigated farming of wet environments and rain-fed cropping of drylands. These strategies have different productive potential and labour needs, which has structured their temporal and spatial distributions. Although these approaches have been studied a great deal at a general level, there has been less work on the local use and significance of these str…
A case for Handy and Puku‘i’s ethnographic reconstruction of the Polynesian family system in Hawai‘i Family System in Hawai‘i
A case for Handy and Puku‘i’s early-twentieth-century ethnographic reconstruction of the Polynesian family system in the Hawaiian Islands is made in the light of a theory of cognatic descent groups associated with land. They describe land tenure practices as organised by commoners who worked in named land parcels known as ‘ili ‘āina. This description is rejected by many scholars today, who argue that Handy and Puku‘i interpreted Hawaiian land ten…
States without Archaeological Correlates? A Report from Hawaiʻi
Two recent archaeological narratives of ancient Hawaiian society apply a neo-evolutionary approach to political development to argue that a primary state evolved prior to contact with Europeans in the late 18th century. Our analysis demonstrates that this finding is based on interpretations of indigenous oral traditions and contact-period historical accounts but lacks archaeological warrant. The Hawaiian archaeological record does not yield the c…
Functional Classification of Hawaiian Curved-Edge Adzes and Gouges
As part of a project to describe and classify functionally more than 800 Hawaiian stone adzes held in the ethnographic and archaeological collections at Bishop Museum in Honolulu, 24 tools with curved edges were identified and described. The curved-edge tools include adzes and gouges, which can be unambiguously distinguished from one another using a combination of weight and length index. Many of the curved-edge adzes have large cutting edge widt…
Volcanic glass at Kualoa, O‘ahu, Hawaiian Islands
Long-term rhythms in the development of Hawaiian social stratification
A Note on Hawaiian Stone Axes
As part of a project to describe and classify more than 800 Hawaiian stone adzes held in the ethnographic and archaeological collections at Bishop Museum in Honolulu, 11 finely-finished, double-beveled stone tools, which resemble modern axe or hatchet blades, were identified and described. These 11 axes were surprising finds in the collection because double-beveled stone tools have been reported as absent in Hawai‘i and in the Duff typology are r…
Alternative models of volcanic glass quarrying and exchange in Hawai'i
Archaeological sequence diagrams and Bayesian chronological models
Dating human dispersal in Remote Oceania
Settlement date estimates for Hawai'i and New Zealand are derived using Bayesian calibration of radiocarbon dates on paleoenvironmental and archaeological samples to demonstrate that the Bayesian framework provides the tools needed to resolve the order of settlement events in Remote Oceania, as well as the time elapsed between them. It predicts that archaeologists will successfully refine the dating of human dispersal elsewhere in Remote Oceania …
Wealth in old Hawai‘i
The journals of Captain Cook and his crew contradict bad‐year economic theories that posit that traditional Hawaiian farmers were living at the margin. Recognising that pig herds were wealth‐assets in old Hawai‘i, an alternative good‐year economic theory is developed that interprets the introduction of sweet potato and the development of the rain‐fed agricultural systems in which it was cultivated as processes in the creation and management of we…
A Paleoenvironmental and Archaeological Model-Based Age Estimate for the Colonization of Hawai'l
Recent estimates of when Hawai'i was colonized by Polynesians display considerable variability, with dates ranging from about A.D. 800 to 1250. Using high resolution paleoenvironmental coring data and a carefully defined set of archaeological radiocarbon dates, a Bayesian model for initial settlement was constructed. The pollen and charcoal assemblages of the core record made it possible to identify and date the prehuman period and also the start…
Hawaiian temples and Bayesian chronology
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A model‐based age estimate for Polynesian colonization of Hawai'i
A model‐based Bayesian calibration using 14 C data from paleoenvironmental cores and materials introduced to the islands by Polynesian colonists estimates that the islands were likely colonized sometime late in the first millennium AD. Two calibrations, one using 14 C dates on floral materials and the other using 14 C dates on floral and faunal materials, indicate that archaeological materials yield relatively imprecise estimates of the colonizat…
Gift Exchange and Interpretations of Captain Cook in the Traditional Kingdoms of the Hawaiian Islands
The relationship between the kanaka maoli people of the traditional kingdoms of the Hawaiian Islands and Captain James Cook and his crew is interpreted in the context of a theory of gift exchange. It is argued that interpretations of kanaka maoli behaviour based on an implicit assumption that social relations were structured primarily by property rights leads to error. Instead, sense can be made of kanaka maoli behaviour only if a logic based on …
Age of the O18 site, Hawai'i
Seven new 14C age determinations on short‐lived materials yield a sound evidential basis for the chronology of the O18 site on O'ahu Island, Hawai'i, long thought to be an early settlement site. Calibration within a model‐based, Bayesian framework indicates that the site was established in AD 1040–1219, some 260–459 years after the current estimate of first settlement, and abandoned in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries. Previously…
Social Transformation in Old Hawai'I
A bottom-up approach based in structuralism and Marxism cast in the 'old language of rights' is used to explain traditional Hawaiian import of metric tons of poor-quality oven stone to the Waimanalo Plain, and to explain decline in the traditional use of tree firewood. The presence of poor-quality oven stones and the pattern of tree firewood use are linked to a long-term decline in the importance of rights of person and a concomitant increase of …
Land Snail Extinctions at Kalaeloa, O`ahu
In this article we show that the interpretation of Polynesian influence drawn from the stratigraphic record of sub-fossil land snails at Kalaeloa (O'ahu, Hawai'i) is based on a unique stratigraphic sequence at a single sinkhole. The interpretation was then applied to other land snail sequences, despite their lack of evidence for Polynesian influence. We present a reanalysis of the stratigraphic record to conclude that Polynesians had little, if a…
Sources of sand tempers in prehistoric Tongan pottery
The sources of volcanic temper sands in prehistoric pottery found on low-lying raised-coral islands of Tonga have long been uncertain. The paucity of noncalcareous sand on most inhabited Tongan islands has led to the suggestion that temper was imported from the active magmatic are to the west, or even that most pottery was imported to Tonga from Fiji. The simple mineralogy of the tempers, which are composed almost exclusively of pyroxene and plag…
Sand tempers in indigenous Lapita and Lapitoid Polynesian Plainware and imported protohistoric Fijian pottery of Ha'apai (Tonga) and the question of Lapita tradeware
The Lapita site at Faleloa on Foa Island in the Ha'apai Group of central Tonga lies near the southeastern end of the belt of Lapita sites spread through island Melanesia and western Polynesia during the millennium 1500–500 BC. Temper sands in Faleloa Lapita sherds closely resemble modern placer sands on beaches of islands within Ha'apai, and document local manufacture without intrusion of tradeware. Other Lapita and Lapitoid (Polynesian Plainware…
Sources of sand tempers in prehistoric Tongan pottery
The sources of volcanic temper sands in prehistoric pottery found on low-lying raised-coral islands of Tonga have long been uncertain. The paucity of noncalcareous sand on most inhabited Tongan islands has led to the suggestion that temper was imported from the active magmatic are to the west, or even that most pottery was imported to Tonga from Fiji. The simple mineralogy of the tempers, which are composed almost exclusively of pyroxene and plag…
Marine Turtle Bones from an Archaeological Site in Polynesia Yield Reliable Age Determinations
Accelerator mass spectrometry dating of three 50g samples of marine turtle bone from the basal cultural stratum of the Tongoleleka archaeological site, Lifuka Island, Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific yields results that agree with conventional 14 C dates on marine shell. A method for calibrating these dates that takes into account the long distance migrations of marine turtles in the South Pacific is proposed. A sample size greater than 50g is rec…
A Paleoenvironmental and Archaeological Model-Based Age Estimate for the Colonization of Hawai'l
Recent estimates of when Hawai'i was colonized by Polynesians display considerable variability, with dates ranging from about A.D. 800 to 1250. Using high resolution paleoenvironmental coring data and a carefully defined set of archaeological radiocarbon dates, a Bayesian model for initial settlement was constructed. The pollen and charcoal assemblages of the core record made it possible to identify and date the prehuman period and also the start…
Wealth in old Hawai‘i
The journals of Captain Cook and his crew contradict bad‐year economic theories that posit that traditional Hawaiian farmers were living at the margin. Recognising that pig herds were wealth‐assets in old Hawai‘i, an alternative good‐year economic theory is developed that interprets the introduction of sweet potato and the development of the rain‐fed agricultural systems in which it was cultivated as processes in the creation and management of we…
Archaeological sequence diagrams and Bayesian chronological models
Age of the O18 site, Hawai'i
Seven new 14C age determinations on short‐lived materials yield a sound evidential basis for the chronology of the O18 site on O'ahu Island, Hawai'i, long thought to be an early settlement site. Calibration within a model‐based, Bayesian framework indicates that the site was established in AD 1040–1219, some 260–459 years after the current estimate of first settlement, and abandoned in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries. Previously…
Long-term rhythms in the development of Hawaiian social stratification
Dating human dispersal in Remote Oceania
Settlement date estimates for Hawai'i and New Zealand are derived using Bayesian calibration of radiocarbon dates on paleoenvironmental and archaeological samples to demonstrate that the Bayesian framework provides the tools needed to resolve the order of settlement events in Remote Oceania, as well as the time elapsed between them. It predicts that archaeologists will successfully refine the dating of human dispersal elsewhere in Remote Oceania …
Social Transformation in Old Hawai'I
A bottom-up approach based in structuralism and Marxism cast in the 'old language of rights' is used to explain traditional Hawaiian import of metric tons of poor-quality oven stone to the Waimanalo Plain, and to explain decline in the traditional use of tree firewood. The presence of poor-quality oven stones and the pattern of tree firewood use are linked to a long-term decline in the importance of rights of person and a concomitant increase of …
Bayesian chronology construction and substance time
Ideal distribution models and the tempo of agricultural development in a windward valley of Hawaiʻi
Across the Pacific, agricultural systems have used two main complementary cultivation regimes: irrigated farming of wet environments and rain-fed cropping of drylands. These strategies have different productive potential and labour needs, which has structured their temporal and spatial distributions. Although these approaches have been studied a great deal at a general level, there has been less work on the local use and significance of these str…
Hawaiian temples and Bayesian chronology
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Volcanic glass at Kualoa, O‘ahu, Hawaiian Islands
Land Snail Extinctions at Kalaeloa, O`ahu
In this article we show that the interpretation of Polynesian influence drawn from the stratigraphic record of sub-fossil land snails at Kalaeloa (O'ahu, Hawai'i) is based on a unique stratigraphic sequence at a single sinkhole. The interpretation was then applied to other land snail sequences, despite their lack of evidence for Polynesian influence. We present a reanalysis of the stratigraphic record to conclude that Polynesians had little, if a…
Gift Exchange and Interpretations of Captain Cook in the Traditional Kingdoms of the Hawaiian Islands
The relationship between the kanaka maoli people of the traditional kingdoms of the Hawaiian Islands and Captain James Cook and his crew is interpreted in the context of a theory of gift exchange. It is argued that interpretations of kanaka maoli behaviour based on an implicit assumption that social relations were structured primarily by property rights leads to error. Instead, sense can be made of kanaka maoli behaviour only if a logic based on …
Marine Turtle Bones from an Archaeological Site in Polynesia Yield Reliable Age Determinations
Accelerator mass spectrometry dating of three 50g samples of marine turtle bone from the basal cultural stratum of the Tongoleleka archaeological site, Lifuka Island, Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific yields results that agree with conventional 14 C dates on marine shell. A method for calibrating these dates that takes into account the long distance migrations of marine turtles in the South Pacific is proposed. A sample size greater than 50g is rec…
Sources of sand tempers in prehistoric Tongan pottery
The sources of volcanic temper sands in prehistoric pottery found on low-lying raised-coral islands of Tonga have long been uncertain. The paucity of noncalcareous sand on most inhabited Tongan islands has led to the suggestion that temper was imported from the active magmatic are to the west, or even that most pottery was imported to Tonga from Fiji. The simple mineralogy of the tempers, which are composed almost exclusively of pyroxene and plag…
Sand tempers in indigenous Lapita and Lapitoid Polynesian Plainware and imported protohistoric Fijian pottery of Ha'apai (Tonga) and the question of Lapita tradeware
The Lapita site at Faleloa on Foa Island in the Ha'apai Group of central Tonga lies near the southeastern end of the belt of Lapita sites spread through island Melanesia and western Polynesia during the millennium 1500–500 BC. Temper sands in Faleloa Lapita sherds closely resemble modern placer sands on beaches of islands within Ha'apai, and document local manufacture without intrusion of tradeware. Other Lapita and Lapitoid (Polynesian Plainware…
Sources of sand tempers in prehistoric Tongan pottery
The sources of volcanic temper sands in prehistoric pottery found on low-lying raised-coral islands of Tonga have long been uncertain. The paucity of noncalcareous sand on most inhabited Tongan islands has led to the suggestion that temper was imported from the active magmatic are to the west, or even that most pottery was imported to Tonga from Fiji. The simple mineralogy of the tempers, which are composed almost exclusively of pyroxene and plag…
Land Snail Extinctions at Kalaeloa, O`ahu
In this article we show that the interpretation of Polynesian influence drawn from the stratigraphic record of sub-fossil land snails at Kalaeloa (O'ahu, Hawai'i) is based on a unique stratigraphic sequence at a single sinkhole. The interpretation was then applied to other land snail sequences, despite their lack of evidence for Polynesian influence. We present a reanalysis of the stratigraphic record to conclude that Polynesians had little, if a…
Age of the O18 site, Hawai'i
Seven new 14C age determinations on short‐lived materials yield a sound evidential basis for the chronology of the O18 site on O'ahu Island, Hawai'i, long thought to be an early settlement site. Calibration within a model‐based, Bayesian framework indicates that the site was established in AD 1040–1219, some 260–459 years after the current estimate of first settlement, and abandoned in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries. Previously…
Social Transformation in Old Hawai'I
A bottom-up approach based in structuralism and Marxism cast in the 'old language of rights' is used to explain traditional Hawaiian import of metric tons of poor-quality oven stone to the Waimanalo Plain, and to explain decline in the traditional use of tree firewood. The presence of poor-quality oven stones and the pattern of tree firewood use are linked to a long-term decline in the importance of rights of person and a concomitant increase of …
A model‐based age estimate for Polynesian colonization of Hawai'i
A model‐based Bayesian calibration using 14 C data from paleoenvironmental cores and materials introduced to the islands by Polynesian colonists estimates that the islands were likely colonized sometime late in the first millennium AD. Two calibrations, one using 14 C dates on floral materials and the other using 14 C dates on floral and faunal materials, indicate that archaeological materials yield relatively imprecise estimates of the colonizat…
Gift Exchange and Interpretations of Captain Cook in the Traditional Kingdoms of the Hawaiian Islands
The relationship between the kanaka maoli people of the traditional kingdoms of the Hawaiian Islands and Captain James Cook and his crew is interpreted in the context of a theory of gift exchange. It is argued that interpretations of kanaka maoli behaviour based on an implicit assumption that social relations were structured primarily by property rights leads to error. Instead, sense can be made of kanaka maoli behaviour only if a logic based on …
Hawaiian temples and Bayesian chronology
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Wealth in old Hawai‘i
The journals of Captain Cook and his crew contradict bad‐year economic theories that posit that traditional Hawaiian farmers were living at the margin. Recognising that pig herds were wealth‐assets in old Hawai‘i, an alternative good‐year economic theory is developed that interprets the introduction of sweet potato and the development of the rain‐fed agricultural systems in which it was cultivated as processes in the creation and management of we…
A Paleoenvironmental and Archaeological Model-Based Age Estimate for the Colonization of Hawai'l
Recent estimates of when Hawai'i was colonized by Polynesians display considerable variability, with dates ranging from about A.D. 800 to 1250. Using high resolution paleoenvironmental coring data and a carefully defined set of archaeological radiocarbon dates, a Bayesian model for initial settlement was constructed. The pollen and charcoal assemblages of the core record made it possible to identify and date the prehuman period and also the start…
A Note on Hawaiian Stone Axes
As part of a project to describe and classify more than 800 Hawaiian stone adzes held in the ethnographic and archaeological collections at Bishop Museum in Honolulu, 11 finely-finished, double-beveled stone tools, which resemble modern axe or hatchet blades, were identified and described. These 11 axes were surprising finds in the collection because double-beveled stone tools have been reported as absent in Hawai‘i and in the Duff typology are r…
Alternative models of volcanic glass quarrying and exchange in Hawai'i
Archaeological sequence diagrams and Bayesian chronological models
Dating human dispersal in Remote Oceania
Settlement date estimates for Hawai'i and New Zealand are derived using Bayesian calibration of radiocarbon dates on paleoenvironmental and archaeological samples to demonstrate that the Bayesian framework provides the tools needed to resolve the order of settlement events in Remote Oceania, as well as the time elapsed between them. It predicts that archaeologists will successfully refine the dating of human dispersal elsewhere in Remote Oceania …
Long-term rhythms in the development of Hawaiian social stratification
Functional Classification of Hawaiian Curved-Edge Adzes and Gouges
As part of a project to describe and classify functionally more than 800 Hawaiian stone adzes held in the ethnographic and archaeological collections at Bishop Museum in Honolulu, 24 tools with curved edges were identified and described. The curved-edge tools include adzes and gouges, which can be unambiguously distinguished from one another using a combination of weight and length index. Many of the curved-edge adzes have large cutting edge widt…
Volcanic glass at Kualoa, O‘ahu, Hawaiian Islands
A case for Handy and Puku‘i’s ethnographic reconstruction of the Polynesian family system in Hawai‘i Family System in Hawai‘i
A case for Handy and Puku‘i’s early-twentieth-century ethnographic reconstruction of the Polynesian family system in the Hawaiian Islands is made in the light of a theory of cognatic descent groups associated with land. They describe land tenure practices as organised by commoners who worked in named land parcels known as ‘ili ‘āina. This description is rejected by many scholars today, who argue that Handy and Puku‘i interpreted Hawaiian land ten…
States without Archaeological Correlates? A Report from Hawaiʻi
Two recent archaeological narratives of ancient Hawaiian society apply a neo-evolutionary approach to political development to argue that a primary state evolved prior to contact with Europeans in the late 18th century. Our analysis demonstrates that this finding is based on interpretations of indigenous oral traditions and contact-period historical accounts but lacks archaeological warrant. The Hawaiian archaeological record does not yield the c…
The patterning of volcanic glass transfer across eastern Oʻahu Island, Hawaiʻi
Bayesian chronology construction and substance time
Ideal distribution models and the tempo of agricultural development in a windward valley of Hawaiʻi
Across the Pacific, agricultural systems have used two main complementary cultivation regimes: irrigated farming of wet environments and rain-fed cropping of drylands. These strategies have different productive potential and labour needs, which has structured their temporal and spatial distributions. Although these approaches have been studied a great deal at a general level, there has been less work on the local use and significance of these str…
Scottish Reformers and ʻIli ʻĀina Dissolution in Mid-19th Century Hawaiʻi
ʻIli ʻāina – the institutional and spatial expression of a common Polynesian social organization designed to manage land tenures efficiently – were systematically dissolved in the mid 19th century as the Hawaiian Kingdom struggled to develop revenue during a population decline and to ward off foreign governments that desired fee-simple title to Hawaiian lands. The King and chiefs responded to these challenges by studying the economic logic of Wes…
Archaeology (21 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (19 works) · Geography (18 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 works) · Geology (12 works) · History (10 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Paleontology (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works)